About Pete Clarkson

Pete Clarkson has been creating sculptures out of marine debris since he moved to Tofino to work for Pacific Rim National Park Reserve 18 years ago. An inter-tidal artist, he forgoes paint, pencils and clay, to work instead with the garbage polluting our oceans and shorelines. Looking closely at one of his assemblages can reveal an unlikely combination of objects from umbrella handles to bath toys and wood from shipwrecks.